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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

Name: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Brand: Harper Perennial
SKU: 9780060855024
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Contributors:

Peter Hessler

Publisher:

Harper Perennial

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Travel, Political Science

Book Subcategory:

Essays & Travelogues, Asia, International Relations

Book Topic:

East

Series:

P.S.

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Release Date:

2006-05-01

ISBN 13:

9780060855024

Weight:

0.71 lbs

Size:

8.02 x 5.32 x 1.06 inches

Pages:

432

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A New York Times Notable Book

Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize

In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society.

Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.

About the Author
Hessler, Peter: -

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Prize; Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and, most recently, Country Driving. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. He lives in Cairo.

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